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    • Concern about Forum security

    Posted by huogas

    I'm getting more familiar with Tiki, but just hit a concern about security.

    I will configure many forums and I have many groups of users.

    Now I want some forum to be only accessible to one or 2 groups.

    I need help to understand the way permission works. I think I will have by default to block all access to ALL and then give some rights on a Forum base ? I need guidance do do the first one, please.

    Thanks,

    Gaston

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    Posted by Darren

    You should read the documentation on PermissionsQuestion (if you haven't already), but to recap there are basically 3 levels or permissions:

    1. Global
    2. Category
    3. Object


    Object will override category permissions and category will override global permissions.

    There are different ways you can approach this particular security issue, in other words multiple correct answers!

    The easiest is probably to set the user group permissions at the forum (object) level. It is possible to allow specific user groups to access a forum and deny access for other user groups.

    Another option is that you could create a category that has forum permissions for a particular user group (or multiple user groups) and then assign each needed forum with that category.

    This nice thing about the category approach is that you can assign one user group per category and then assign multiple categories to each forum so that you can very easily change permissions on forums by adding/removing categories.